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Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?



> > Explain to me how the ro root makes a difference? There is a lot of
> > talk about how difficult it is to install a rootkit when the root fs
> > is ro, but if you already have superuser privileges why can't you just
> > remount root rw and then drop the rootkit in?
>
> If you already have superuser privileges you dont need a rootkit.

Quite, but then you didn't go that one stage further and provide an opinion
on the worth of a ro filesystem.


Matt.



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